As Bruce Prichard continued his story, he noted that while Glenn Jacobs was apprehensive about the angle and how it would change his life, he wasn’t at all unwilling to go through with it, and gladly stepped up for the challenge. However, this led to WWE Creative having to figure out how they could make him look twisted underneath the mask without going into special effects.

“Somebody might have asked the question: ‘Okay, we take the mask off? What does he look like?’ ‘What do you mean: what does he look like?’ ‘What does he look like under there!’ ‘Cause, he’s been wearing a mask to hide something…” Prichard recalled. “[We] wanted to mangle him up some way, so that the mask was still hiding something that when you took that mask off you went ‘Oh! That’s hideous, now I understand why he wore the mask all this time!'”

Prichard then recounted how they ended up giving Jacobs the infamous haircut he’d don under the mask for the match against Triple H, and shaved his eyebrows too. “It was – again – it was an evolution of the character Kane, to give him another dimension,” he added. “You could see his face, you could see that when he’d scrunch his face up and he would get, you know, see him thinking, and it was scary!”

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